Cure2Children Blog

by Saira Faisal

The organization that saved the lives of many people in Pakistan celebrated its success and first anniversary at the Islamabad Club on 22nd January, 2010. The anniversary frequented by high society of Pakistan and broadcasted live by the top media channels proved to be a well organized and delightful gathering.

For celebrating the first anniversary and the success of Cure2Chidren foundation in its true essence, there could be no better guests than the families and children who have been cured by Cure2Chidren . In addition to them, his Excellency, Vincenzo Prati, the Ambassador from Italy; Mr. Qamar Zaman Kaira, Minister of Information; The managing director of Bait-ul-maI, Mr. Zamurd Khan, other well known doctors and many high society people were also present.

Dr. Sadaf & Dr. Naila enlightened the guests on the role Cure2Chidren has played in the lives of its patients and in making thalessemia a curable disease for the poor people in Pakistan. Various pictures were shown on the multimedia and the guests were told about the care Cure2Chidren has given to its patients. Cure2Chidren has performed total 22 transplants in which 16 were fully sponsored and 6 were partially sponsored. On this great achievement, the chief guests; Ambassador Italy, Mr. Zamurd Khan & Mr. Qaira Praised the whole team of Cure2Chidren and appreciated the efforts and life changing concept. The Ambassador expressed his views on the success of achieving these extraordinary goals. He promised his full support and committed to help in obtaining all kind of possible help. The head of Bait-ul-Mal, Mr. Zamurd Khan committed to donate 5 lac Rs (5882 USD ) to every C2C patient in Pakistan and gave away cheques of 30 thousand Rs (353 USD) to each family of the cured children. Mr. Qaira while appreciating the enormous efforts behind this noble cause promised his full support and committed to raising Cure2Chidren to higher levels in Pakistan, with the support from President and Prime Minister.
Few other doctors, Including Dr. Tahir Shamsi from Karachi expressed their heartfelt appreciation for Cure2Chidren Italy and Dr. Faulkner for taking the initiative for such a remarkable cause. They expressed keen interest in the growth of Cure2Chidren in Pakistan and future collaboration with Cure2Chidren .

In the end Dr. Faulkner praised the whole team of Cure2Chidren Pakistan and the efforts they have made to complete all the major goals in about a year’s time. He expressed his deep satisfaction and joy attained because of the excellent results shown by Cure2Chidren Pakistan. Towards the end of the event were given different gifts to the C2C cured children. These gifts were sponsored by Cure2Chidren while presented to the families by the chief guests.  With the end of the gathering began the great beginning of achieving miracles.